Thursday, September 14, 2006

Evil and inhuman

Muslim scholars and religious leaders in Kuwait, Turkey and Pakistan have criticised Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks critical of Islam and urged him to play a positive role in bringing Islam and Christianity closer.

During a six-day visit to his native Germany this week, the pope hit out at America and Britain and their concept of democracy citing a 19th-century Christian emperor who said that phoney democracy had brought the world "evil and inhuman" things.